James Ware, who is the HSPH Frederick Mosteller Professor of Biostatistics,
has been serving as the School's Acting Dean since July 1, when the former
Dean, Harvey V. Fineberg, took the position of Provost of the University.
Dean Ware has been a member of the School of Public Health for 18 years
and served as the Dean for Academic Affairs since 1990. He is known for
his statistical research on the design and analysis of longitudinal studies
and for methodology for the analysis of environmental health data. He is
a co-investigator of the Six Cities Study of Air Pollution and Health as
well as the Director of the Coordinating Center for Treatment of Lead Exposed
Children Trial. Before coming to HSPH, Dean Ware was a mathematical statistician
at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.